III Lviv IT Forum Results
Organizers: AG LEC, PPV Knowledge Networks
Sponsor: “Comarch” Company
In total, 22 industrial companies and service providers, representatives of City Administration and business associations (LEC, EBA, LCCI) took part in the Forum. In the course of the Forum, a number of bilateral meetings between IT sector and other industries representatives were held. At the time of world economic crisis, the event was estimated as a real instrument of business competitiveness growth. The event was covered by a number of local and national Internet media...

LEC Analytical Group conducted a research on small entrepreneurship
Under conditions of practically invariable institutional problems (corruption, bureaucracy, etc.), the main problem of the regional small business, questioned in April 2008, lies in new challenges it faces at present: in particular, lack of qualified workforce and new production areas, problem of allocation of land plots for construction, etc. 
Positive changes, presented in the analysis, could be explained both by better business adaptability to current situation, and expansion of positive practice of “state non-interference in business”, which assumed some practical qualities in the last two years. According to the research, a number of governmental actions were really significant for the growth of small business competitiveness. At the same time, some positively assessed actions, such as “promotion of innovations in small business environment”, require substantial revision and modified approaches.

On 21-22 February 2008, Consulting Group “Cowperwood” (Dnipropetrovsk) and Analytical Group of Lviv Entrepreneurs Committee, under the support of Business School of Lviv Management Institute and European Business Association, held a practical seminar "The Art of Business Planning and Assessment of Investment Projects".  

The seminar was designed and taught by Viktor Halasyuk, a well-known financial analyst, director of the economic department of “Incon-Centre” of the Consulting Group “Cowperwood”, which since 1993 successfully operates on the market in the sphere of audit, assessment, financial and economic analysis, investment project planning, jurisprudence, tax consulting, book keeping, implementation of legal and information systems, etc. According to the rating of auditing and consulting companies of Ukraine, compiled by the rating centre “Expert Ukraine” in 2006, “Cowperwood” Group was the first of three leaders on the Ukrainian market of consulting services.